My Lulu

1. My Lulu hugged and kissed me,
    She wrung my hand and cried,
She said I was the sweetest thing
    That ever lived or died.

2. My Lulu's tall and slender,
    My Lulu gal's tall and slim,
But the only thing that satisfies her
    Is a good big drink of gin.

3. If you go monkey with my Lulu gal,
    I'll tell you what I'll do,
I'll carve your heart out with my razor,
    I'll shoot you with my pistol too.

4. My Lulu gal's a daisy,
    She wears a big white hat;
I bet your life when I'm in town
    The dudes all hit the flat.

5. I ain't goin' to work on the railroad,
    I ain't goin' to lie in jail,
But I'm goin' down to Cheyenne town
    To live with my Lulu gal.

6. My Lulu she's an angel,
    Only she aint got no wings.
I guess I'll get her a wedding ring
    When the grass gets green next spring.

7. My Lulu, she's a dandy,
    She stands and drinks like a man,
She calls for gin and brandy,
    And she doesn't give a damn.

8. Engineer blowed the whistle,
    Fireman rang the bell,
Lulu, in a pink kimona
    Says, "Baby, oh fare you well."

9. I seen my Lulu in the springtime,
    I seen her in the fall;
She wrote me a letter in the winter time,
    Says, "Good-bye, honey," that's all.


From Carl Sandburg's "American Songbag".  He wrote, "Cowboys, loggers, pick and shovel stiffs, leathernecks, scissorbills, bootleggers, beer runners, hijackers, traveling men, plasterers, paperhangers, hogheads, tallowpots, snakes and stingers, and many men who carry gadgets and put on gaskets, have different kinds of verses about Lulu. Since the Chicago fire, the St. Louis cyclone and the Chatsworth wreck, she is the most sung about female character in American singing. We present nine of the nine hundred verses."